Short Update
- Rape scene is shown again…
- Damini/Mohini/Daksha are completely high on bhang…
- Daksha dances to "Kaisi Paheli Zindagani" (from Parineeta)…
- KT is left in her room, she cries to herself loudly…
- Abhir appears on the scene, Nakul asks him to leave but Bhoomi says that he is her guest and will stay…
- Lakshya is looking for KT… Archita and Pari tell him that something was mixed in the sherbat.. Lakshya asks if KT drank it and Archita and Pari confirm, that yes, she did drink some…
- Lakshya comes looking for KT to her room… KT hides from him in the shower, crying…
- Tanya is jealous of Nandini… She has an altercation with Karan and screams that Tulsi is the cause of all the problems and that she wishes Tulsi was dead. Karan slaps Tanya…
- KT comes out to the party, she sees Eklavya and is scared…
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The rape scene is continued. Please excuse me, but I don't want to write about it again. The haunting music continues as KT cries out and grunts, struggling.
The rape is reflected in Lakshya and KT's engagement picture, which ultimately falls and breaks.
Meanwhile, Lakshya is looking for KT…
OH YES, NOW HE LOOKS FOR HER!
Lakshya goes to Joydeep…
L: Joydeep, have you seen KT?
Joydeep, like everyone else, is wasted…
JD: Lakshya… Lakshya , you know, Bhoomi doesn't let me put colour on her…
L: I'm asking about KT… Have you seen her? KT?
He continues looking around for KT…
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Downstairs, everyone is mast tullll… Happy in their own world, while a girls world as she knows it, is shattering… Isn't it a wonderful world we live in? NO? Yea, I thought so…
Damini, drunk is counting stars… In broad daylight…
Mohini: Daminiiiiii… You know this bhang… You drink a glass, and the black and white world becomes Eastman Colour to you…
D: NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!! NO EASTMAN COLOUR! I like it black and white… Black and white … Black and white… Black and white …
She continues counting the invisible stars only intoxicated people can see…
Mo: Oh wow… This one's needle is stuck for now…
The screen goes blue and we see Daksha yelling at Himmat…
D: Arara! After making falooda of my izzat, you are drinking more bhang here???
H: Basanti, this is the magic of your bhang… Now let me fill your maang…
Daksha brushes him off and walks off to be caught by Damini and Mohini…
Mo: Daadi… Wah! Maang sitaaron se bharoon and all that huh??
D: You mixed something in our thandaai and now you are hesitating… No no you have to drink some Bhang…
D: Arara! Gaandi, maine kuch nahi milaaya…
Mo: Aapne mundi hilya… Matlab milaaya… Now drink…
GC: Yes daadi, you have to drink!!! Drink…. !!!
Daksha appears with a flower tucked behind her ear and some household plant ka wine wrapped around herself… … She performs to "Kaisi Paheli Zindagani" from Parineeta…
Tripti laughs…. Sahil and Gautam also smile at the sight…
Continue dancing, while someone screams for help, why don't you?
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KT lies on the bed, all dazed and shocked… She rolls down and falls from the bed, onto the floor, right next to the shattered picture of Lakshya and her smiling… There is also her dupatta, which was torn away from her body, during the rape… She holds her head… She just lies there, quietly sobbing, until her sobs take over her body and she lies there crying loudly… She holds her dupatta to her chest and cries loudly, her body wracked with sobs, sobs that no one can hear…
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Abhir appears at the party... He looks smug and self satisfied and cocky…
OK… Now call me presumptuous and presuming and assuming and whatever you want, I am now sure that Mayank is not the rapist… VERY VERY SURE...
Nakul, who is putting colour on Lakshya, sees him…
WHAT IS LAKSHYA STILL DOING HERE?!?!?!? WHY ISNT HE LOOKING FOR HIS GODDAMNED FIANCEE???
Nakul walks to Abhir, leaving a confused looking Lakshya… As Abhir tries to walk in front, Nakul blocks his way….
N: What are you doing here?
A: I am here to meet Tulsi Maata… Obviously I'm here to meet Bhoomi…
N: Look Abhir, today is Holi… Please don't spoil the mood here… Please go away…
A: This is what I am telling you… Today is Holi, I don't want to createa fight… I just want to meet Bhoomi…
N: You cant meet her... She is married now…
Bhoomi's voice rings out…
B: Abhir will not go away…
She walks up to Abhir…
B: Naul, you have no right to act like this with my guest… I called Abhir here... He is my guest… Happy holi, Abhir… (smiles at him..)
A: Same to you, sweetheart…
B: Come, lets go…
Bhoomi and Abhir put colours on each other… Joydeep looks on sadly… Lakshya and Nakul hold his shoulder and support him…
Manthan and the losers walk up to Abhir and Bhoomi…
A: Hey dude, called me here and you yourself disappeared?
M: Was just entertaining my guests…. Happy Holi man…!
JD: Look Lakshya, Bhoomi played Holi with everyone, just not me… Look Nakul, look at that Abhir…
Lakshya is still looking around for KT…
L: Where is KT? Nakul, I'll just come, look after Joydeep…
Lakshya goes to Archita and Pari…
L: Have you guys seen KT?
A: She was here only…. Then we went to drink sherbat.. I haven't seen her since… Bhaiyya, don't drink that sherbat ok??? There's something in it that makes you drowsy…
Archita herself is drowsy and Pari is holding on to her…
L: What? The sherbat?? DID KT DRINK IT?
A: Yeah, she drank it with us…
Lakshya looks worried and continues to look around…
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*SCENE OF THE DAY*
KT staggers to the bathroom… She looks at herself in the mirror… She cries out loudly… She claws at her own face, trying to wipe the colours smeared on her face away…. She washes her face again and again, crying loudly all the time…
She has flashbacks of Lakshya and her engagement and her getting raped… She cries louder…
She touches her face in the mirror, clawing at it, as though wanting to scratch it away from the mirror, trying to remove the images from her mind, but she cant… She continues crying…
Lakshya enters the house, calling out to KT…
KT gasps, shocked…. She has more flashbacks of the rape... She covers her mouth, trying to stifle her loud crying and sobs…
Lakshya knocks on the door of KT's room... Getting no response, Lakshya goes in…. He sees the empty room… As he passes the grill of the bathroom, KT quickly moves over to the otherside, holding on to her mouth, so he can't see her… Leaning against the wall, she continues to cry loudly, yet covering her mouth so Lakshya cant hear her…
Lakshya is in her room…
L: What a weird girl… She was dancing with me… Now where is she?? KT??? KT?
He goes out of the room, looking for her…
KT, the shower streaming over her, screams… She sits hugging her knees to her chest, rocking herself, crying… The colour washes off her, forming a pool of blood red around her… She tries to hide her head in her arms, the water still streaming over her…
If this scene didnt bring tears to my eyes, I would be scared that I wasn't human. I cried. I admit publicly, that I shed quite a few tears. 😭
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Tanya sees Karan and Nandini play holi, makes her insecure face and walks away….
She walks into the house and sits there alone, looking at her bangles, wiping her silent tears away…
FLASHBACKS…
T: Karan, you said that your yesterday and your tomorrow are connected with your today.. I am your today, then why are you still in Nandini's colour ? Why do I see only her in your past present and future?
Karan comes looking for Tanya, and comes to her…
K (thinks): Nandini was right… I must make it known to Tanya, how special she is to me…
He approaches her… She is angrily taking her bangles off…
K: Hey, what is this? You washed off all the colour? Today is the day the colout should stay! Coz when someone puts colour on you, they are giving you a lil bit of their love and trust…
Tanya starts to leave angrily, Karan grabs her hand…
K: Tanya… (he take sout some colour and gently puts it on her hand…) This colour I have put, it may go after a few days… But the colour of our love will never go… It will always remain…
I think I just fell in love with Hiten…😳
Tanya angrily jerks her hand away…
T: Don't touch me… I don't wanna see your face…
K: Tanya, what are you saying?
T: Isnt it the truth that you always looked for Nandini in me…?? She left you for 20 years yet still today all I see is her… Just think, what a wife feels like, when she realizes that the place in her husband's heart which I reserved for her, is occupied by some other woman! A wife can share most things, Karan, but not her husband.. Yet you always forced me to share you with her…After years, you gave me a gift, and it was one that had come off the wrist of Nandini!!!!! What haven't I don't for you? I looked after your home, your family, your children!!!!
K: What are you saying? This is your house and they are your children too!!!!!!!
T: YES, EVERYTHING IS MINE! BUT ARE YOU MINE???? No you aren't…
K: I, my family, and maa, we all accept you as the bahu of this house…
T: Your mother! Your mother is the cause of all the problems…!
K: Are you in your senses? What are you talking about?
GET A NEW DIALOGUE KARAN!?!? YOU HAVE BEEN SAYING THE SAME THING FOR THE LAST 5 MINUTES!
T; What has your mother given me? She has only snatched from me! My love, my family… The bahu of the house puts colour on Thakurji's idol, she stole that right from me too!!!! The truthg is she wanted me to share everything with Nandini… Why did she give Nandini that right? WHY??? I wish she had never come back from Haridwar… I CURSE HER!!!! I wish she was dead!!!!!!!
And Karan, like any normal human being who would hear someone wishing for his mother's death, slaps Tanya… Thank you Karan… No one gets away with insulting Mommy. No one.
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KT comes to the party, her face scrubbed clean of all the colour and her hair and clothes wet… She can barely walk and is staggering along, as though she is in a lot of pain…
To see her walk like that… It broke me…
Archita and Pari pull her along and push her in the pool… KT stands in the middle of the pool, crying loudly… People swim by, completely ignoring a woman crying loudly as though some one died, as though this is a normal occurrence at Holi parties… She bends down and disappears under the water… She stands up… Conscious of where she is, she slowly wades to the edge of the pool and climbs out… She staggers out to a shady area, holding on to herself, wrapping her arms around herself…. She looks up to see Eklavya and gasps, scared… Eklavya looks at her, concerned and worried… KT continues looking scared, gasping and sobbing…
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Comments: It was a haunting episode. It was shocking and startling to see the contrast between the agony someone was going through, INSIDE the house, and hundreds of people, laughing and enjoying and celebrating, OUTSIDE THAT VERY SAME HOUSE….
I look at the rape scene again and I am a pretty sure a stunt double was used for that scene, to throw the viewers outta the loop… But seeing that cocky and self satisfied smirk on Abhir's face make me very sure that he is the rapist. 😡😡😡 It all fits perfectly, since:
- He is not engaged to KT/Madly in love with her… (unlike Lakshya/Eklavya)
- Doesn't suffer from Multiple Sclerosis, thus being a fully able bodied man, who can easily rape a woman, especially an intoxicated one like KT (unlike Mayank)
- Doesn't quite hate KT in the same way that Manthan hates her… (Hates her enough not to touch her…)
Star of the day: Mouni Roy. As a girl who suffered such a trauma, her anguish is truly palpable… You can actually feel her tears and sobs rising inside you, making you feel as though you were the one who underwent such a violation… The shower scene stands out… The way she claws at herself and her mirror image, the way she tries to silence herself so Lakshya wouldn't find her in that state and the scene where she collapses in the shower, crying and hiding her head is haunting and will stay with you forever. Unlike any of the other rape scenes that Ekta has ever portrayed, this one will completely break you and lose a little bit of faith in the world, making you question why things like this happen to such good people…
Overall rating: 6/10
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